CVE-2013-4969

Publication date 26 December 2013

Last updated 16 September 2025

Description

Puppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
puppet	13.10 saucy	Fixed 3.2.4-2ubuntu2.2
	13.04 raring	Fixed 2.7.18-4ubuntu1.3
	12.10 quantal	Fixed 2.7.18-1ubuntu1.4
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 2.7.11-1ubuntu2.6
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life

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Notes

mdeslaur

mitigated by Yama on default Ubuntu kernels

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2077-1
Puppet vulnerability
6 January 2014

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4969